One Community

in God’s Love

WE are a Community

CENTRED in FAITH

  Welcome to Week 3.

This Friday is All Saints Day. It is a day where we gather as a community to celebrate the Eucharist and remember the many Saints who have shared the gift of Jesus in communities around the world.

St Thomas More’s staff, students and community will be attending ‘All Saints Day’ Mass on Friday at 9:30am. 

As part of their ‘MIGRATION’, unit Year 5/6 students explored how Saints were centred in FAITH and shared the Gospel with everyone they came in contact with.

Sophie

Saint Josephine Bakhita, 

She showed PEACE by being able to stay calm and still being able to love people despite everything she had been through. Josephine showed COURAGE to be able to survive her time as a slave and then being able to work in a convent as a nun and talk about her experiences. Saint Josephine Bakhita made a positive impact on her community by talking about her experiences as a slave and by raising awareness of what slaves haD to go through, she made such a large impact that she now has a movie about her. I think Saint Josephine is a great inspiration for everyone.

Kobe

Fr Damien was a priest in Molakai, Honolulu. He was known as ‘Fr Damien, the leper priest. He used the gift of COURAGE when he worked with all the people who had leprosy. He was filled with compassion and chose to help them. Fr Damien shared the Fruit of KINDNESS when he worked hard to build community, provide clean drinking water and construct schools and churches to preserve the FAITH.

Tara

Although St Peter Canisius was not the Patron saint of anything he was a famous Priest and doctor. He used the fruits of KINDNESS and GENTLENESS and often visited the sick or prisoners in his free time.

He became known for his strong faith and support for the Catholic Church during the Protestant Reformation in many European countries. This would have required COURAGE to ensure the Catholic faith was preserved.

Luke

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton was the first woman who was born in the United States of America to be canonized in a Roman Catholic Church. Elizabeth is the patron saint of American Catholic schools.

She showed the fruit of KINDNESS by building a Catholic School that was free. She showed the fruit of JOY by being happy and never looking down and always keeping her head up. She showed the Fruit of FAITHFULNESS by following the same faith for 16 years. She showed the gift of KNOWLEDGE by building two schools and two orphanages

Enjoy the rest of your week.

Donna Victory
Religious Education Coordinator